Apache server not able to read cookies from Browser
Your server on localhost is most likely writing the cookies for localhost, or for the stackoverflow
directory. When it is accessed from behind a reverse proxy, it needs to recognize this and set the cookies the correct domain name.
Instead of the smarts for this residing in the web app on port 8080, you could have the reverse proxy translate the cookies:
ProxyPassReverseCookiePath /stackoverflow /
ProxyPassReverseCookieDomain localhost example.com
See this question on StackOverflow where I asked about jsessionid cookies and used this technique on the reverse proxy to solve my problem.
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Drew
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Drew over 1 year
I have developed a login authentication page using cookies (with spring security) where for the first time, the user will need to get itself authenticated. Once the user gets successfully authenticated, then on each subsequent request from the same browser, the user will redirected to the success page. The code is working fine on
localhost:8080
but the problem is I have configured Apache HTTP server and when I hit the request through the Apache server to the application, then I think the cookies are not been read by the Apache server.
I have enabled the cookies in httpd.conf file (but it is not working) as well by
LoadModule usertrack_module modules/mod_usertrack.so
and
<VirtualHost *> ServerName localhost CookieTracking on ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/stackoverflow/ </VirtualHost>
Please let me know what am I doing wrong
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Drew about 11 yearsI have added ProxyPassReverseCookiePath in httpd.conf but it is giving me "invalid command" error on console. Which LoadModule do it need for this. I already have mod_proxy uncommented in the httpd.conf file
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Drew about 11 yearsI think I need to use Apache 2.2 if I need to use ProxyPassReverseCookiePath. Isn't it?
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Drew about 11 yearsIts working now.. Thanks Stephen so much.. I don't have enough reputations to give an up-vote here but will be giving it to you on your question in Stackoverflow. Thanks again